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| − | The Poetist Manifesto was written by [[Karel Teige]] and [[Vítězslav Nezval]] in [[1924]].
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| − | (From: Alfred French, The Poets of Prague, London, 1969 -- an excellent, and the only,
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| − | "...in Teige's view the noblest expression of modern art was to be found not in cathedrals
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| − | or galleries but in the functional products of technical civilization. The art of tomorrow,
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| − | as already demonstrated by the architecture of today, would shun romanticism and
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| − | decoration, and its spirit would be akin to that of geometry or science. But though the
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| − | new living style was to be, at its best, severely logical, it must also cater for the irrational
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| − | side of man, that side of him which hungered for the bizarre, the fantastic, and the absurd.
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| − | For six days would man be rational, but on the seventh would he rest from reason. This
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| − | recreation, or social hygiene, as Teige regarded it, was the function of Poetism, which
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| − | thereby supplemented Constructivism, being itself its opposite face.
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| − | Poetism was not itself art, but a style of living, an attitude, and a form of behaviour. It
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| − | was favourable to the growth of an art which was playful, unheroic, unphilosophical,
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| − | mischievous, and fantastic: it throve in an atmosphere of gaiety and fun, and aimed to
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| − | draw the attention of its audience from the gloom of factory and tenement to the bright
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| − | lights of man-made amusement. 'Poetism seeks to turn life into a magnificent
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| − | entertainment, an eccentric carnival, a harlequinade of feeling and imagination, an
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| − | intoxicating film track, a marvellous kaleidoscope. Its muses are kindly, gentle and
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| − | smiling, its glances are as fascinating and inscrutable as the glance of lovers.' " [http://www.perdigiorno.net/manifesto/poetistmanifesto1924.pdf]
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